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Outsource Marketing receives recycling award for fourth consecutive year

By on June 24, 2010 in announcement, corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, socially responsible

Each year, King County recognizes organizations that have made recycling and waste reduction a priority, so we’re honored to make the “Best Workplace for Recycling and Waste Reduction” list once again this year. Instead of us telling you how, here’s an excerpt from the webpage listing this year’s recipients: Outsource Marketing is a fourth-year Best [...]

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The 7 Keys to Responsible Marketing in 2 Minutes

By on October 21, 2009 in casting responsible, environmentally responsible, execution responsible, fun, message responsible, movies, roi responsible, socially responsible, strategically responsible, videos

Want to know what Responsible Marketing is about but don’t have the time to read our white paper on the topic? Well, here’s “The 7 Keys to Responsible Marketing in 2 Minutes,” featuring the characters you’ve grown to love (or hate) in our Responsible Marketing web shorts. View on YouTube There ya go—with a video [...]

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Climate hype? Where there’s hype, there’s $

By on October 15, 2009 in environmentally responsible, socially responsible, videos

For Blog Action Day, I started crafting a post regarding the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December, but then I realized, hey, this blog is supposed to be about Responsible Marketing! Here’s an interesting Google Earth tour on the topic. Right after I’ll get to my real post. View on YouTube Okay, so I’ve [...]

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Responsible or not? Audi’s “Do Your Part”

By on October 6, 2009 in advertising, environmentally responsible, greenwashing, message responsible, responsible or not?, videos

It ain’t so easy being green. Unless, of course, you buy a clean diesel from Audi. That’s the message of this Audi A3 “Do Your Part” advert: View on YouTube I get the idea: Show you can be environmentally responsible without having to put yourself out. You can have it all. Here’s one point of [...]

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Is your “Green Czar” an angel or a devil?

By on October 2, 2009 in casting responsible, environmentally responsible, fun, movies, socially responsible, videos

In 2006, we decided we needed get serious about greening Outsource Marketing after years of agreement about having an environmentally responsible workplace but no real plan to make it happen. Since then, we’ve been recognized for our efforts and have even won a few workplace recycling awards. The two secrets to our success: Everyone at [...]

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Evian’s hip-hop roller babies: Responsible or not?

By on July 9, 2009 in advertising, creativity, environmentally responsible, responsible or not?, videos, viral marketing, word of mouth

By now, you’ve probably heard about Evian‘s new “live young” campaign featuring the roller babies. You haven’t? Well, now you are in the know: There’s a lot to like here: It’s fun, unique, the CGI was done well and who doesn’t love Rapper’s Delight? It’s the type of video you can hardly resist hitting the [...]

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Shut off your lights at the office this weekend.

By on March 27, 2009 in environmentally responsible, socially responsible

In support of Earth Hour, all our lights will be shut off at Outsource Marketing this entire weekend. Mostly because I don’t want someone to have to come in and shut them off at 8:30 on a Saturday night. Here’s what it all about: On Saturday, March 28th at 8:30pm millions of people around the [...]

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What do you think of Earth Day cards?

By on March 5, 2009 in environmentally responsible, socially responsible

An intriguing question was posed by Tim Somers via LinkedIn the other day and I’m curious to see what you think. Here’s his question: Would using a greeting card to promote Earth Day go against what Earth Day is all about even if the cards are made with recycled materials? I asked a similar question [...]

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Is green marketing Responsible Marketing?

By on February 16, 2009 in environmentally responsible, greenwashing

Is green marketing responsible? Not always. Sometimes it’s just the opposite—it’s irresponsible, deceptive and wrong when it’s greenwashing. The fact is, most Americans say green advertising is nothing more than just a marketing tactic. Consumers are savy—just because a marketer claims it doesn’t mean they’ll believe it. So why go green? Well, because it’s the [...]

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To print or not to print. That is the question.

By on December 29, 2008 in environmentally responsible, strategically responsible, usability

At least, that’s the question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. We printed and mailed holiday cards to key clients and sent digital versions to friends of the firm and the folks we communicate with regularly in social media circles. But I wasn’t sure if should send printed holiday cards. Every card we sent [...]

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Amazon begins initiative to reduce packaging

By on November 14, 2008 in branding, creativity, environmentally responsible, word of mouth

Great packaging can be the difference between success and failure for some products. As marketers, it’s our responsibility to make sure the products we are marketing are packaged in a way that merchandises well, is easy to display, and showcases its best features on the shelf—especially when stacked up against the competition. Creative packaging reinforces [...]

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Solar powered bus shelters turn outdoor ads green

By on October 29, 2008 in ads everywhere, corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, signage, socially responsible

In an innovative public-private partnership, Fuel Outdoor has donated 600 Solar powered bus shelters to the City of Miami. It’s “a revolutionary model at work—corporate advertising dollars are being used to clean the environment,” says Miami Mayor, Manny Diaz. Michael Freedman, CEO of Fuel, describes their unique business approach: We have a triple bottom line [...]

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The new phone books are here! Oh, goody.

By on October 22, 2008 in environmentally responsible

As a teen, one of my favorite comedies was The Jerk starring Steve Martin. It’s a classic filled with unforgettable lines: “You mean I’m going to stay this color?” and “I’ve found my special purpose!” come to mind immediately. Navin Johnson’s excitement when the phone books came was unforgettable: Navin Johnson: The new phone book [...]

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The coffee is $3. The GOOD is free.

By on September 12, 2008 in Uncategorized

There’s something new at Starbucks, but it’s not on the menu and it doesn’t cost a dime. The GOOD Sheet, a weekly “graphical exploration of some of the major issues facing us in this election season and beyond,” appeared in all Starbucks nationwide yesterday. The goal of the GOOD Sheet is to stimulate conversation during [...]

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Kissing a frog to help the environment

By on August 15, 2008 in cause marketing, corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, fun

Earlier this summer, Outsource Marketing participated in The Olympus Press Print Green Summit, an annual event attended by over 250 people from 150 companies to focus on ways to, well, print greener. Olympus sponsored an interesting origami-making contest. To enter, contestants created an origami character with special FSC certified paper, took a picture of it [...]

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Responsible or not? Bayer Corporation

By on March 26, 2008 in corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, responsible or not?, socially responsible, videos

For generations, Bayer has been a household name in America. Today, the company has over 106,000 employees working in 150 countries in healthcare, crop science, business services, technology and more. The company’s slogan: “Science for a Better Life.” Here’s a description of some of Bayer’s social initiatives from their corporate website: We support both schoolchildren [...]

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Smokes that Al Gore would love?

By on March 5, 2008 in environmentally responsible, greenwashing, responsible or not?

Are you a green smoker? Not green from emphysema, but green as in environmentally responsible. A little about Natural American Spirit Organic Cigarettes: We grow our premium natural tobacco in a responsible, sustainable way through our earth-friendly and organic growing programs. We also strive to reduce our footprint on the earth by using recycled materials [...]

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Green & authenticity make a good marriage

By on February 25, 2008 in environmentally responsible, socially responsible

Lewis Green and I had a great talk last week. Lewis is the Chief Communications Officer & Founder of L&G Business Solutions, and author of the book Lead With Your Heart. Our chat had no agenda. We connected online a few months ago after we noticed we seemed to be singing from the same hymnal. [...]

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Two trends you need to wrap your head around now

By on January 4, 2008 in environmentally responsible, social networking, socially responsible, strategically responsible, videos

AdWeek released its Top 10 Trends of 2007 late last month. Trends included the explosion of social networking and its impact on privacy, increased mobility, the growth of the BRIC nations, online gaming, and how open systems are prevailing over closed ones. But two trends are of particular relevance to responsible marketing: It’s time to [...]

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Inspiration from unexpected places

By on January 1, 2008 in environmentally responsible, socially responsible, videos

Happy New Year! Finding the right topic for my New Year’s Day post was more difficult than I thought. Sure, I have hundreds of things bookmarked and find new things every day. And this time of year, there are plenty of worthy “2007 Marketing Year in Review,” “2008 Marketing Forecast,” and “Marketing Top 10 List [...]

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